How can someone be born and raised in the DC area yet still be racist?

[Anonymous]

PP here. Also you are inherently racist if you say, “I don’t see color-I just want the highest performance schools” because race, hhi, and test scores are so closely intertwined. There are no unicorns. Notice I said Hispanics and AAs for a reason; I excluded rich diplomats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP have you seen the real estate forum? People look for school districts with the least numbers of Hispanics and AAs.

Yep...including people of color.

Many upwardly mobile blacks and Latinos want their kids to go to less diverse schools (as opposed to schools where minorities are the majority).

Why?

Class. Socioeconomics.

Nobody wants their kids surrounded by kids who aren’t planning to go to college.

Diverse communities like MoCo don’t really have white flight anymore. Look at the demographics. Instead, you see families of all races and ethnicities scrambling to move west where zoning laws prevented the development of rentals or affordable housing.

I’m convinced socioeconomics trumps race, yet we never talk about it. Perhaps because the wealthy people running our world don’t want us to get hip to economic inequality and seek to level the field?

NP. This is so offensive. I didn’t go to college and I make mid-six figures. Go take your disastrous “Kids are bad if they aren’t go to college” or “College isn’t for everyone-but but that doesn’t apply to my kid” agenda elsewhere.

First: this thread isn’t about you, Mr. Six Figures.

It’s about racism and stereotypes from a societal perspective.

Personally, I do not believe college is necessary for everyone. I have many friends and relatives who earn far more than I do with their blue collar businesses. I’m a huge fan of vocational education, and I think college costs were unnecessarily inflated by government loans.

Setting that aside: College is still very much the American dream/goal, and most parents want their kids surrounded by other students who value education and aren’t merely passing time. You must realize that, right? You must realize why families scramble to land in a W school or magnet, right? It’s a thing. It’s not my thing (we’re in a more diverse pyramid, but we aren’t down county).

Bottom line: class, not race. Why?

[Anonymous]

MOCO is a terrible example it’s far more segregated. I would say Charles County has a better distribution of race class mix than other counties locally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MOCO is a terrible example it’s far more segregated. I would say Charles County has a better distribution of race class mix than other counties locally.

Under what rock have you been living?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-diverse-cities-in-the-us

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MOCO is a terrible example it’s far more segregated. I would say Charles County has a better distribution of race class mix than other counties locally.

Under what rock have you been living?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-diverse-cities-in-the-us

The individual neighborhoods are heavily segregated. The area as a whole can be considered diverse but it’s not a mix of people from various backgrounds and income levels living on the same street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MOCO is a terrible example it’s far more segregated. I would say Charles County has a better distribution of race class mix than other counties locally.

Under what rock have you been living?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-diverse-cities-in-the-us

I see diverse Reston and Bethesda didn't make the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MOCO is a terrible example it’s far more segregated. I would say Charles County has a better distribution of race class mix than other counties locally.

Under what rock have you been living?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-diverse-cities-in-the-us

The individual neighborhoods are heavily segregated. The area as a whole can be considered diverse but it’s not a mix of people from various backgrounds and income levels living on the same street.

You’re conflating two indicators: race/ethnicity and income levels.

You are correct that MoCo is segregated by income level; we only have a few pockets of the county with a wide range of household incomes. But the county isn’t segregated by race. That simply isn’t true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MOCO is a terrible example it’s far more segregated. I would say Charles County has a better distribution of race class mix than other counties locally.

Under what rock have you been living?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-diverse-cities-in-the-us

The individual neighborhoods are heavily segregated. The area as a whole can be considered diverse but it’s not a mix of people from various backgrounds and income levels living on the same street.

You’re conflating two indicators: race/ethnicity and income levels.

You are correct that MoCo is segregated by income level; we only have a few pockets of the county with a wide range of household incomes. But the county isn’t segregated by race. That simply isn’t true.

This is part of a larger issue- loudly exclaiming diversity simply because more people of color or a variety of incomes come to a certain county. But are the resources available to those “diverse” communities (neighborhoods) the same as those for the “majority” communities? Are they created equal? If not, can you really claim this as true diversity or is it diversity by segregation which is not always separate but equal as we have seen for years.